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Stayed here as part of a road trip booked through virgin. Rooms dated, staff not really interested at check in/out and wifi chargeable. On the plus side, location excellent and barman a really great guy- friendly and explained what can be seen in yosemite. Unfortunately we knew about the history of the place which concerned us a little (security seems...

We recently returned from a trip to California and spent a few days in Yosemite. We had hoped to stay inside the park, but we are a family of six and couldn't find reasonably priced accommodations that could fit our family. We opted to try the Cedar Lodge, which wasn't cheap at $188/night but reasonable for our family size. We...

My review is from the point of view of a teenage girl so if you're traveling with teenagers hopefully my review will be helpful to you.
We stayed in Cedar Lodge for 2 nights straight after staying at THEhotel - Las Vegas, so obviously our opinion was somewhat distorted before we'd even check in.
Overall I guess the word to...

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cedar002, General Manager at Cedar Lodge, responded to this review

Thank you for taking the time to write a review for us. I really like Las Vegas too. All of our 2 queen deluxe rooms and rooms with Kitchens and Junior Suites and King Spa rooms have coffee makers. Our standard rooms do not . We hope to have coffee makers in all our rooms
this year.
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Colleen

We have just paid a another visit to Cedar Lodge and received the usual warm welcome from
Geoff & Susan Wych. They are alsways very helpful and nothing is too much trouble and
are willing to help out in any emergency. The accommodation is first class, the rooms being
adequately furnished and comfortable. The meals are excellent. The location is...

The Cedar Lodge is one of the closest hotel value if you're visiting Yosemite Valley (the Yosemite View Lodge is 10 minutes close but a lot pricier; the Tenaya Lodge is closest to Yosemite's South entrance, a good 40 minutes away from the Valley). Just stayed a couple of nights in the junior suite and was happy enough that I...

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cedar002, General Manager at Cedar Lodge, responded to this review

Thank you for the review. We do have rooms with flat screens, but you are right not all of
them yet. We are adding more. We just recently added some new sofa sleepers too. We look forward to your return stay to see our other improvements.
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Colleen

Cant argue with the price of the room. Poor service from reception staff. Restaurant was average and expensive, but the only local option. Indoor swimming pool was great. Hotel is outside El Portal, and about 10 miles from park entrance. Good cheap accommodation.

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cedar002, General Manager at Cedar Lodge, responded to this review

Thank you for the review. We will make reception our top propriety to improve. We look forward to your return visit. I will let the owner of restaurant know about your review.
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We booked to stay here for three nights (only made it for two nights as there was a road closure and we had to sleep in the car overnight....a long story.Will try and leave details elsewhere on Trip Advisor).
We were umm-ing and ahh-ing over Yosemite View Lodge over this one. Am so glad we went with the Cedar Loadge...

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cedar002, General Manager at Cedar Lodge, responded to this review

Thank you for taking the time to write the review. I'm so glad you have a good stay. We Just received a new shipment of magnets with different price ranges. We hope to have you stay with us again.
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The location is good, less than ten minutes from Yosemite entrance. It's nice that it has an indoor AND outdoor pool, plus and indoor jacuzzi.
The food from the bar & grill was really good, but the restaurant's was not great, and extremely overpriced, even with the $4 salad bar price added on to everything, the salad bar was poor...

I booked a room for two nights in Cedar Lodge, but due to a car accident could not arrive on time, so I was late one day. I called to the hotel right after the accident to ask them to move my reservation to one day later and they said that they could easily do it. However when I arrived...

This is a motel campus, 6 buildings of rooms plus a gift shop, indoor and outdoor pools, restaurant, bar & grill, and many bear sculptures spotted around the property. There is a Yosemite Regional Transportation System (YARTS) bus stop on the property so you can get to Yosemite Valley by public transportation if you choose. (You can also take YARTS...

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